Hotkey fails to fire the first time consistently Topic is solved

[tomsta]

Hello Forum
So, I've written this code for the video game "The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt" to roam through the virtual world with my hand off the keyboard. W is for moving forward in the game and LShift is for sprinting. As you can see in the code, it needs to be double-pressed sometimes. In the case where LShift doesn't need to be double-pressed and even with the additional lines removed In the script, the issue persists. I do reload the script every time I made changes.

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; Variables
sprinting := 0
; Triggers
*CapsLock::
	if(!GetKeyState("LShift"))
	{
		sprinting := 1
		if(!GetKeyState("W", "P"))
			SendInput, {W down}
		SendInput, {LShift down}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift up}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift down}
	}
	else
	{
		sprinting := 0
		if(!GetKeyState("W", "P"))
			SendInput, {W up}
		SendInput, {LShift up}
	}
	return
; Handlers
~W::
	if(sprinting)
	{
		SendInput, {LShift down}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift up}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift down}
	}
	return

Basically there are two modes:
1. AUTO: If I'm not moving forward myself, it'll do that for me.
2. MANUAL: If I want full directional control, I hold down W during the toggle, and it'll just do the sprinting.
The handler is working as intended (if I stop at some point and then go on, I will be sprinting again).
BUT:
If I stop and go while in the sprinting mode, meaning that, however I started, I'm now in MANUAL, it always takes two presses on the toggle button (CapsLock) to turn off sprinting, unless I stopped first.
The same exact thing happens, if I replace "!GetKeyState("LShift")" with "!sprinting" in the first if-statement.
I did at some point have two triggers. They looked like this:

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; Triggers
*CapsLock::
	if(!GetKeyState("LShift"))
	{
		sprinting := 1
		SendInput, {W down}{LShift down}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift up}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift down}
	}
	else
	{
		sprinting := 0
		SendInput, {W up}{LShift up}
	}
	return
~W & CapsLock::
	if(!GetKeyState("LShift"))
	{
		sprinting := 1
		SendInput, {LShift down}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift up}
		Sleep, 25
		SendInput, {LShift down}
	}
	else
	{
		sprinting := 0
		SendInput, {LShift up}
	}

That didn't make a difference.
What are your suggestions?